Utorrent slows down your web browsing ie firefox

I have been suffering with this for ages. Utorrent killed all browsing potential.

Found solution here http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992

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• COMMON PROCEDURES (reiterated just to be sure)
• Restart µTorrent, your computer, modem, and/or router after performing any of the suggestions below
• Try lowering net.max_halfopen to 8 or lower (Can be found in Preferences > Advanced)
• Try disabling IP resolving in the Peers tab's context menu
• Try disabling DHT (Can be found in Preferences > BitTorrent)
• Try disabling UPnP and NAT-PMP (Can be found in Preferences > Connection)
• Try disabling peer.resolve_country if it isn't already set to false (Can be found in Preferences > Advanced)
• Try lowering maximum global number of connections to 200? 100? 50? Lower? (Can be found in Preferences > BitTorrent)
• Try patching TCPIP.sys (Windows XP w/ SP2, Windows 2003 w/ SP1, or newer)? Windows Vista users can try this out, but no guarantees are made. Users not on Windows XP w/ SP2, Windows 2003 w/ SP1, Windows Vista, or newer can skip this step.
• Connect your computer directly to the modem to make sure the problem is not caused by the router

If none of this helps, PROVIDE US WITH INFORMATION. Last edited by Firon (2008-05-16 23:23:39)

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Originally Posted by 0control

For all of you NOD32 users out there, this'll also probably help:

With µTorrent downloading, IE7 and Firefox were slow to start and slow to browse. Issue resolved by >
NOD32
Setup
Antivirus and antispyware
Web Access Protection
HTTP
Web Browsers
EXCLUDE µTorrent.exe

Found solution at: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=34527

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Thanks this helped me!

yeah that helps everyone ;d

does this affect utorrent's performance?

cool

Is that solution limiting the number of torrents I can seed? Please respond. :)

Guys, what number of half-open connections you set in uTorrent after patching TCPIP.sys. At the moment my uTorrent client is set to 50 half-open connections of 252 available on my Windows 7.

yeah kinda better now

Nice, for all of you Nod32 users out there, this'll also probably help:

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With µTorrent downloading, IE7 and Firefox were slow to start and slow to browse. Issue resolved by >
NOD32
Setup
Antivirus and antispyware
Web Access Protection
HTTP
Web Browsers
EXCLUDE µTorrent.exe

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This helped for me anyway.

Found solution at: http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=34527

PS: Not the intention to hijack this thread.

tnx for this tutorial :)

The main thing that helped me was the patch.

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Originally Posted by 100%

The main thing that helped me was the patch.

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I never see the slow down but it may because I use a Slipstream disk with Black Viper and other tweaks like Evillords open connections.

Funny as you can have three neighbours all using different IPS with different speed issues trying to solve the problem . Much appreciated Zed , this is a good start . :happy:

Thanks

Yeah, thanks alot for this :o

thanx man i'll try it

Thanks for the help information 100%(=

Nice work. Great info

Gosh, I had that same problem with NOD32 and found that same solution a time ago but always thought that I was the only one that didn't know about that =/

So many people with that same problem! =|

Thank You for this tutorial. It is very useful. It really helped me :).

Thanks for the information. I've been experiencing this as well.

Did this and I can confirm that this is working . Thanks

bandwith is limit. to gain .to lose.

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Originally Posted by shganghui

bandwith is limit. to gain .to lose.

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By any chance are you and weedpeople related?

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Originally Posted by IdolEyes787

By any chance are you and weedpeople related?

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Maybe he saw all the threads weedpeople spammed in the new posts list and decided to have a go himself. :unsure:

Reported to the staff. :yup:

yeaah ,, its better thanx

Thanks, this seems helpful.

The latest alpha of uTorrent decreases torrent usage when you browse the pages. But it's still better to deleted finished torrents as soon your out/in traffic ratio is over 1.

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Originally Posted by iBulldozer

The latest alpha of uTorrent decreases torrent usage when you browse the pages.

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It's called "uTP", and has been on the works since v1.8.

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Originally Posted by F33NY

does this affect utorrent's performance?

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Yes, but it depends on the configuration of other parameters you have in Utorrent, and also what Other peers you are connected to.
One should patch TCP/IP and disable DHT, if you are using private trackers. Thats more than enough actually.

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Originally Posted by Arian51

Is that solution limiting the number of torrents I can seed? Please respond. :)

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Yes, sort of. As you are limiting Upload Slots.

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Originally Posted by diew

One should patch TCP/IP and disable DHT, if you are using private trackers.

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That's a myth. Please do a Google search for "BitTorrent private flag" and read the material you get.

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Thats more than enough actually.

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Not really, you also need to set the right amount of maximum connections and limit your upload speed.

thanks for the help :) but i have a doubt if the bandwidth allocation (in utorrent) is made to high for a particular download, then does it cause the same problem with the web browser's ?

Anything that clogs a lot of bandwidth will slow network access down for the rest of your programs. However, as of this writing, uTorrent has uTP (a.k.a. bandwidth management) enabled by default. This means you should experience less lag even if leeching at full blast because speeds are automatically regulated.

tnx its feel faster now...

I was experiencing slow web surfing on my iMac. After reading this thread, now I suspect that it is probablly because of bittorrent client on my mac. I will delete it from the machine and will see if it is going to make any difference.

Thanks, Pendu

Not if you have a seedbox

Wow. Didn't know that. Thanks for the post :)